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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Dills, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paxton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45612. It stands on Seip Mound. The Survey maps it on the Morgantown quadrangle.

Dills within Ross County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Dills, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires nearby

35 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Dills between 2006 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5325
24 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5287
20 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5285
8 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2015Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1209
16 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4955

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 863 shown

Museums hold 863 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dills between 1874 and 1975: 561 Animalia, 251 Fungi, 43 Plantae, 8 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.JaegerRhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger1909Henry S. Jewettnear Sulphur Lick Springs
Specimen of Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.1909Henry S. JewettSulphur Lick Springs
Specimen of Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.1914Bruce FinkBainbridge
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1910Hopkins, L.S."Caves" Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Brachyelytrum erectum, not of this specimenBrachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cardamine pensylvanica, not of this specimenCardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cinna arundinacea, not of this specimenCinna arundinacea L.1910Hopkins, L.S.Panel Creek
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1910Hopkins, L.S.Careo, Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Diarrhena americana, not of this specimenDiarrhena americana P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Point Creek

All 863 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Dills in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022FloodDills-High water was reported on a few roadways in the Bainbridge area.

Every storm recorded in Ross County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Storms2.0 miles14
Spargursville2.9 miles14
Bainbridge3.0 miles17
Minnehan Bend4.1 miles14
Bourneville4.2 miles11
Harris4.5 miles14
Pleasant Grove4.6 miles14
Nipgen5.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039711. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.